John 8:38 “I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do…”

John 8:38

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

World English Bible

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

American Standard Version

I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.

Geneva Bible 1599

I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

Darby Translation

I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.

Young's Literal Translation

I — that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father — ye do.'

Bible in Basic English

I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

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Cross references

“speak”

John 5:19 John 5:30 John 8:26 John 3:32 John 14:10 John 14:24

John 5:19 · BSB

So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

John 5:30 · BSB

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 8:26 · BSB

“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”

John 3:32 · BSB

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

John 14:10 · BSB

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

John 14:24 · BSB

Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

“and ye”

John 8:44 John 8:41 1 John 3:8–10 Matthew 3:7

John 8:44 · BSB

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native langua…

John 8:41 · BSB

You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

1 John 3:8–10 · BSB

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

Matthew 3:7 · BSB

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

37I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.

39“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.

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